Hill and Avidsen, because any man that prevents the greatest director of all time, Mister Ingmar Bergman, of a win, don’t deserve pity. But I voted in Hill, because he also beat Bertolucci, Friedkin AND George Lucas, what a shame!

I second the write-in vote for Howard. I still can’t believe that he won instead of David Lynch (for Mulholland Drive!), Altman and Peter Jackson. He was the least deserving of the five and his film is boring, predictable, pretentious, cheaply sentimental and visually dull. And I may be the only one but I don’t buy Russell Crowe’s performance at all.

Anyway, another undeserving winners – well, most of them given who was snubbed by the Academy in a given year, but if you consider the actual nominees: James Cameron should give his Oscar to Curtis Hanson, I love Polanski’s work but he won for one of his lesser films (Pedro would have been my choice!) and Danny Boyle’s win makes no sense to me (as doesn’t the film). But somebody strangely missing from the poll is Kevin Costner. I can’t believe Scorsese was denied an Oscar for Goodfellas. This movie is genius!